"Schizomorphic" Emulsion Copolymerization Particles
- Cryo-electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and light microscopy investigations provide experimental evidence that amphiphilic emulsion copolymerization particles change their morphology in dependence on concentration. The shape of the particles is spherical at solids content above 1%, but it changes to rod-like, ring-like, and web-like structures at lower concentrations. In addition, the shape and morphology of these particles at low concentrations are not fixed but very flexible and vary with time between spheres, flexible pearlnecklace structures, and stretched rods.
Author details: | Nancy Weber, Brigitte TierschORCiD, Miriam M. Unterlass, Anneliese Heilig, Klaus TauerORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.201100491 |
ISSN: | 1022-1336 |
Title of parent work (English): | Macromolecular rapid communications |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Place of publishing: | Malden |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2011 |
Publication year: | 2011 |
Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
Tag: | amphiphilic particles; emulsion polymerization; morphology |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 23 |
Number of pages: | 5 |
First page: | 1925 |
Last Page: | 1929 |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Chemie |
Peer review: | Referiert |